# What is the origin of your SDMB name?

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Thorny locust is a tree.

It’s a very stubborn sort of tree; once it gets its roots down somewhere, it’s really hard to get rid of. It’s definitely a member of an invasive species. And it’s thorny. A lot of people don’t like it.

It also makes fantastic fence posts; untreated wood lasts many years even in wet ground. And it makes extremely good firewood; will keep you warm all night and all winter. And it’s arguably a nitrogen fixer, feeding other plants around it.

So: not to everybody’s taste. But certainly has its good points.

– I developed a liking for it years ago, while simultaneously trying to keep it from taking over an old vineyard and using its fenceposts to hold up the vineyard trellis.

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